Peterborough have paved the way for Billy Janniro to return to Coventry by releasing the American from his loan contract at the East of England Showground.

Janniro, who has ridden in only five Elite League matches for the Panthers, has been replaced by short-term stand-in Lukas Dryml, who has won himself to a full-time deal with some impressive performances.

Peterborough boss Trevor Swales said: "We've released Billy after a lot of thinking, and he is now free to go and ride elsewhere. We just feel that Lukas has done more than enough to justify his place in the team.

"I'm not sure how fit Billy is, and we gave Lukas the chance and said that it was up to him to make it hard for us to drop him at the end of the month.

"He's made it impossible for us to drop him." Janniro has been back in the States recovering from neck and finger injuries sustained in Germany last month, but he returned last week and flew to Sweden on Saturday for the Grand Prix at Eskilstuna.

He is due to return to the saddle for Smederna in tonight's Swedish Elite League match with Piraterna.

The Buildbase Bees were expected to announce a change to their lineup today, and the clever money was on Janniro being brought back in to replace Swedish reserve Daniel Davidsson ahead of Friday's KO Cup clash with Swindon at Brandon. o TEAM GB's Under 21s, managed by Bees co-boss Peter Oakes, finished third behind Sweden and Germany in yesterday's World Junior Team Cup qualifier at Abensberg. Antonio Lindback stormed to a 15-point maximum as Sweden won with 56 points to book their place in the final, Germany were runners-up with 33 (Coventry's Martin Smolinski scored eight) and Team GB scored 24.

The joint Hungary/Slovenia side mustered just three points. o SCOTT Nicholls guests for Arena-Essex against his former club Ipswich tomorrow night.